Essay: In memory of Robert Siemann

Alexander W. Chao^*
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309, USA

^*Alexander W. Chao is a Professor of Physics at the SLAC National Accelerator Center. He earned his Sc. B. degree in physics from National Tsinghua University, Taiwan in 1970 and a Ph. D. in physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974. He joined SLAC from 1974 to 1983 when he left to join the then sparklingly new Superconducting Super Collider project in charge of its accelerator physics design. Nine years later, he returned to SLAC after the termination of the SSC Laboratory in Texas and became a Professor at Stanford. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was awarded the Wideroe Prize of European Physical Society in 2008.